[Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[Tara Nelson]

SHELLY WINTERS by Luther Price

(from an interview in Big Red & Shiny)

*TN* *In your film SHELLY WINTERS, there is no image at all, just white
leader and a soundtrack We hear the voices of both victims and perpetrators
of domestic violence, telling their stories, but there is no image.*

*LP* That’s a very sad film. It’s a struggle for survival. I get emotional
about that one. And that film was made in Quincy, so we know the accent,
there is an indigenous thing about that film. One of her only escapes was
to go to Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts has been part of my life for as long
as I can remember. So you feel closer to her pain because she feels almost
like a relative, or like your neighbor.
In that film, the absence of image creates an emptiness, a vastness. It
becomes its own vast ocean of emptiness. It almost becomes a metaphor
within the image itself… for her pain… that she is alone in this ocean of
emptiness, and the fact that we are left with no color, no movement, no
image, everything is left in the solitude of your own self. You start to
understand how pain can look like nothing. Pain can be a vast hole of space
that is just there. -
See more at:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?article=2012-09-13-060119619840570338&issue=136
§ion=av#sthash.ZM8bsslF.dpuf


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Mark Toscano <fiddybop at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think what Albert's asking for are films that utilize a more or less
> intact found soundtrack, rather than a collaged soundtrack that includes
> found sound segments.
>
> Lipsett, Pat O'Neill, and plenty of other artists have made some exciting
> use of collaged found elements, but I'd also love to hear some other
> examples of what Albert's looking for.
>
> mark t
>
> PS Maybe it's just delayed, but I didn't see my response come in to the
> listserv. I had thought of James Benning's UTOPIA, John Smith's LOST SOUND,
> and Chris Langdon's PICASSO. I think there's at least one Mark LaPore film
> that makes extensive use of a pre-existing soundtrack, but can't recall
> which one at the moment...
>
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:13 AM, "William Wees, Dr." <william.wees at mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
>  Arthur Lipsett’s films are composed almost entirely of “found sound.”
>
>
>
> --Bill Wees
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com<frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Albert Alcoz
> *Sent:* November 24, 2013 3:56 PM
> *To:* frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> *Subject:* [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> *Institutional Quality* by George Landow was created from a found
> soundtrack, in this case a tape recorder about an instructional test.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know other examples that uses found soundtracks for
> experimental films, especially from the sixties and seventies?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Albert
>
> http://www.visionaryfilm.net/
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